Most of us can’t imagine conducting day-to-day business without email.   Our dependence has only increased because of smart devices that keep us connected to our email 24/7. How would your business operate if suddenly, unexpectedly, no one had access to their email? More importantly, what would happen if – while that email outage was taking […]

Employing a third party to store and deliver assets critical to Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Plans can be invaluable.  But offsite storage should never be “dump it and forget it”.  Despite everything your storage provider may promise, it’s what you don’t know that could become a problem when you need to retrieve your data […]

Among the many unwitting assumptions that occur when developing Business Continuity plans is the assignment of roles to specific individuals.  A smart BCM planner will at least buttress that assignment with a backup person – just in case.  But is that really enough? In many cases is should be.  But there are many others in […]

When creating Evacuation, Incident Management or Business Continuity Plans the focus is usually on what you will do, how you will react and what actions you will take.  Unfortunately, those assumption (yes, those really are ‘assumptions’) don’t necessarily mesh with what may really happen. First, consider your environment.  Are you in a multi-tenant building?  Your […]